By VERLIE Q. RETULIN FIRST it was mall voting. Now it’s voter verification through headphones for people who have trouble seeing that won’t see the light of day on May 9. The Commission on Elections confirmed Thursday, four days before the election, that the headphones connected to vote-counting machines (VCM) will no longer be used by
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL PRESIDENTIAL race frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte, already facing a plunder case filed by Sen. Antonio Trillanes, has been slapped with yet another complaint, this time by disabillity groups and advocates. Disability advocates Ranilo Sorongon and Liza Martinez charged the Davao City mayor before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Friday with violating the
Photos by LUIS LIWANAG NECK and neck with administration bet Leni Robredo in the vice presidential race, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. capped his campaign with a miting de avance in Mandaluyong on May 5. His running mate, Miriam Defensor Santiago, was absent in the event and held a separate sortie in the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WHEN polling places open on May 9, none of them would be in malls, as had been planned and hailed months before the elections. On April 27, poll chief Andres Bautista announced that mall voting, a pilot project of his administration, will no longer push through. “I personally worked on
WITH social media’s wide array of possibilities, netizens have seized the opportunity to make fun of presidential and other candidates by creating impersonation accounts using the candidate's image, paired with a convincing handle.
By VERA Files IF you’re a Filipino registered voter, chances are your personal data, including fingerprint, street address, precinct number and passport information, are now floating online. These data can be accessed through a search engine, wehaveyourdata.com. Hacktivist group LulzSec Pilipinas said it owns the website. The group also claimed responsibility for defacing the official
The Commission on Human Rights compiled election-related violence (ERV) incidents from all over the country from June. Half or 26 out of 49 reported ERV incidents occurred in Mindanao. Of this, 23 victims were killed or wounded by gunshot, despite the gun ban and checkpoints implemented by the Commission on Elections on January 10. Hover
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL THE attack on a Lanao del Sur gubernatorial bet in an ambush early Saturday morning did not make it to the first election-related violence (ERV) report released recently by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). If it did, it would have raised to nine the incidents of ERVs in the Autonomous
IN the April 13 and 14 Bilang Pilipino SWS Mobile Surveys, Liberal Party (LP) candidate Mar Roxas placed third in the presidential race, way behind first- and second- placer Grace Poe (34 percent) and Rodrigo Duterte (33 percent) who both have twice as much percentage points as Roxas (16 pecent). A month earlier, in the
By JAKE SORIANO THE disability sector breathed a sigh of relief when news broke in late March that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III had finally signed into law the bill exempting persons with disabilities (PWDs) from the value-added tax (VAT). For advocates, the enactment of Republic Act 10754 had been one nerve-wracking wait. Congress had
